Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
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There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
